Review IAM permissions needed for ETL jobs - AWS Glue
Data source and data target permissionsPermissions required for deleting jobsAWS Key Management Service permissionsPermissions required for using connectors

Review IAM permissions needed for ETL jobs

When you create a job using AWS Glue Studio, the job assumes the permissions of the IAM role that you specify when you create it. This IAM role must have permission to extract data from your data source, write data to your target, and access AWS Glue resources.

The name of the role that you create for the job must start with the string AWSGlueServiceRole for it to be used correctly by AWS Glue Studio. For example, you might name your role AWSGlueServiceRole-FlightDataJob.

Data source and data target permissions

An AWS Glue Studio job must have access to Amazon S3 for any sources, targets, scripts, and temporary directories that you use in your job. You can create a policy to provide fine-grained access to specific Amazon S3 resources.

  • Data sources require s3:ListBucket and s3:GetObject permissions.

  • Data targets require s3:ListBucket, s3:PutObject, and s3:DeleteObject permissions.

Note

Your IAM policy needs to allow s3:GetObject for the specific buckets used for hosting AWS Glue transforms.

The following buckets are owned by the AWS service account and is worldwide readable. These buckets serve as a repository for the source code pertinent to a subset of transformations accessible via the AWS Glue Studio visual editor. Permissions on the bucket are set up to deny any other API action on the bucket. Anybody can read those scripts we provide for the transformations, but nobody outside our service team can "put" anything in them. When your AWS Glue job runs, that file is pulled in as a local import so the file is downloaded to the local container. After that, there is no further communication with that account.

Region: Bucket name

  • af-south-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-762339736633-prod-af-south-1

  • ap-east-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-125979764932-prod-ap-east-1

  • ap-northeast-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-673535381443-prod-ap-northeast-2

  • ap-northeast-3: aws-glue-studio-transforms-149976050262-prod-ap-northeast-3

  • ap-south-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-584702181950-prod-ap-south-1

  • ap-south-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-380279651983-prod-ap-south-2

  • ap-southeast-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-737106620487-prod-ap-southeast-1

  • ap-southeast-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-234881715811-prod-ap-southeast-2

  • ap-southeast-3: aws-glue-studio-transforms-151265630221-prod-ap-southeast-3

  • ap-southeast-4: aws-glue-studio-transforms-052235663858-prod-ap-southeast-4

  • ca-central-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-622716468547-prod-ca-central-1

  • ca-west-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-915795495192-prod-ca-west-1

  • eu-central-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-560373232017-prod-eu-central-1

  • eu-central-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-907358657121-prod-eu-central-2

  • eu-north-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-312557305497-prod-eu-north-1

  • eu-south-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-939684186351-prod-eu-south-1

  • eu-south-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-239737454084-prod-eu-south-2

  • eu-west-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-244479516193-prod-eu-west-1

  • eu-west-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-804222392271-prod-eu-west-2

  • eu-west-3: aws-glue-studio-transforms-371299348807-prod-eu-west-3

  • il-central-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-806964611811-prod-il-central-1

  • me-central-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-733304270342-prod-me-central-1

  • me-south-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-112120182341-prod-me-south-1

  • sa-east-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-881619130292-prod-sa-east-1

  • us-east-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-510798373988-prod-us-east-1

  • us-east-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-251189692203-prod-us-east-2

  • us-west-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-593230150239-prod-us-west-1

  • us-west-2: aws-glue-studio-transforms-818035625594-prod-us-west-2

  • ap-northeast-1: aws-glue-studio-transforms-200493242866-prod-ap-northeast-1

If you choose Amazon Redshift as your data source, you can provide a role for cluster permissions. Jobs that run against a Amazon Redshift cluster issue commands that access Amazon S3 for temporary storage using temporary credentials. If your job runs for more than an hour, these credentials will expire causing the job to fail. To avoid this problem, you can assign a role to the Amazon Redshift cluster itself that grants the necessary permissions to jobs using temporary credentials. For more information, see Moving Data to and from Amazon Redshift in the AWS Glue Developer Guide.

If the job uses data sources or targets other than Amazon S3, then you must attach the necessary permissions to the IAM role used by the job to access these data sources and targets. For more information, see Setting Up Your Environment to Access Data Stores in the AWS Glue Developer Guide.

If you're using connectors and connections for your data store, you need additional permissions, as described in Permissions required for using connectors.

Permissions required for deleting jobs

In AWS Glue Studio you can select multiple jobs in the console to delete. To perform this action, you must have the glue:BatchDeleteJob permission. This is different from the AWS Glue console, which requires the glue:DeleteJob permission for deleting jobs.

AWS Key Management Service permissions

If you plan to access Amazon S3 sources and targets that use server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), then attach a policy to the AWS Glue Studio role used by the job that enables the job to decrypt the data. The job role needs the kms:ReEncrypt, kms:GenerateDataKey, and kms:DescribeKey permissions. Additionally, the job role needs the kms:Decrypt permission to upload or download an Amazon S3 object that is encrypted with an AWS KMS customer master key (CMK).

There are additional charges for using AWS KMS CMKs. For more information, see AWS Key Management Service Concepts - Customer Master Keys (CMKs) and AWS Key Management Service Pricing in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.

Permissions required for using connectors

If you're using an AWS Glue Custom Connector and connection to access a data store, the role used to run the AWS Glue ETL job needs additional permissions attached:

  • The AWS managed policy AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly for accessing connectors purchased from AWS Marketplace.

  • The glue:GetJob and glue:GetJobs permissions.

  • AWS Secrets Manager permissions for accessing secrets that are used with connections. Refer to Example: Permission to retrieve secret values for example IAM policies.

If your AWS Glue ETL job runs within a VPC running Amazon VPC, then the VPC must be configured as described in Configure a VPC for your ETL job.